Sticky Blumea is an erect perennial branches herb
1-2 ft tall. It is aromatic, smelling of turpentine. Stem is usually
not winged. Leaves are ovate to obovate, 2-12 x 1-5 cm, lyrately or
pinnately lobed, with a wedge-shaped or narrow base or sometimes lobed
to the base, lobes decurrent, 6-8 x 4-5 mm. Flower-heads are 7-9 mm in
diameter; phyllaries 3-6 mm, outer one lanceshaped, inner linear,
glandular. Florets are purple, 4-6 mm long. Seed-pods are dark
red-brown, about 1 mm obscurely ribbed, sparsely hairy, pappus white,
4-4.5 mm long. Sticky Blumea is widely distributed. Flowering:
March-June.
Identification credit: Krishan Lal
Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh.
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